Zombie Report By ISP 260
twitter writes "Information Week has a summary of a report by Prolexic detailing Zombie activity by ISP, country and population statistics. AOL, the largest provider, had the most zombies but lower rates than others. Fourth largest Earthlink was not in the top 20. The information is gathered from hundreds of customer sites." From the article: "Weinstein went on to say that Prolexic's numbers were actually good news for AOL. 'It's a demonstration that the tools we provide are keeping members safe. Our very aggressive actions -- we provide anti-virus, anti-spyware, and firewall services to our users -- make them measurably safer than those on other ISPs.'"
Re:Turn turn turn ... (Score:2, Informative)
The other thing about AOL (Score:4, Informative)
So a lot of the AOL crowd having good numbers may very well be local ISP's that are taking good care of their own customers, and just happen to contract out to AOL on the side
-everphilski-
Re:Umm... (Score:5, Informative)
The Prolexic Zombie Report [prolexic.com]
This is how it starts... (Score:2, Informative)
Although, there are some AOL users I wouldn't mind being gobbled up, I hardly need to sit on my roof with a minigun and grenade launcher.
For the love of G-d, we must do something now!
Report. (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.prolexic.com/zr/ [prolexic.com]
--saint
Re:Article is incorrect (Score:4, Informative)
So (making #s up) if AOL is 10% of all attacks, and 100 million machines, they have .1 percent per million. But if Joe's ISP has 5% of all attacks, and only 5 million machines, they have 1.0 percent per million.
AOL has twice as many attacks total, but compared to their user base Joe's rate is ten times as high.
Earthlink *is* 17th... (Score:3, Informative)
AOL's ISP is ATDN (Score:5, Informative)
"ISP" usually refers to something more customer-facing than the tier 1 providers.
Earthlink has broadband services (Score:3, Informative)
Remember, traditional AOL service is dialup too? No difference between Earthlink and AOL in this respect. Both are dialup providers that have begun a push into broadband service, and in Earthlink's case, even mobile phone service. (Earthlink is an MVNO that resells Verizon and Sprint service.)